Business Development Manager

About Turner & Townsend

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company that delivers transformational programmes across the real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors. For over 75 years, we have been at the forefront of shaping the built environment, contributing to critical projects such as hospitals, railways, energy infrastructure, and data centres. Our work directly impacts people’s lives while ensuring sustainable returns for clients and investors. With a commitment to driving positive change, we support a green, inclusive, and productive world by fostering trust between clients, suppliers, governments, and society.

Our Purpose and Values

Our purpose is to transform performance for a sustainable future. We achieve this by leveraging the expertise, dedication, and collaboration of our diverse teams to deliver exceptional outcomes. Our core values guide our actions and define our culture:

• Love a challenge: We embrace challenges as opportunities for growth, continuously pushing boundaries to achieve excellence. Our teams are trusted to innovate, raise standards, and drive meaningful change.
• Stronger together: Collaboration is at the heart of our success. By fostering diverse and inclusive teams, we harness collective strengths to deliver impactful results and build a better world for everyone.
• Bring out the best in everyone: We are committed to nurturing talent, encouraging continuous learning, and empowering every individual to reach their full potential. Respect, care, and open communication are the foundations of our workplace.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a dynamic and strategic Business Development Manager to lead our business development and marketing initiatives in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). In this pivotal role, you will play a key part in enhancing our market presence, cultivating strong client relationships, and driving revenue growth. Your responsibilities will include developing and executing comprehensive marketing and business development strategies, supporting high-impact bids, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with regional and global objectives.

Key Responsibilities

As a Business Development Manager, you will be responsible for the following:

• Implementing and executing the KSA marketing and business development plans in collaboration with strategic leads, sector specialists, and the Head of Middle East Business Generation (BG).
• Ensuring alignment with the regional Key Client Programme methodology and utilising appropriate tools to drive success.
• Supporting large and complex bids by assisting with bid strategy, execution, and conversion analysis to identify best practices and improve future outcomes.
• Developing and maintaining high-impact bidding tools, case studies, and CVs to strengthen our competitive positioning.
• Providing guidance to technical teams on awards, social media strategies, marketing collateral, and channel selection to enhance brand visibility.
• Contributing to the development and execution of the regional internal communications plan to foster a cohesive and informed organisational culture.

Your Profile

To excel in this role, you will possess the following skills and attributes:

• Proven ability to challenge, influence, and engage with senior stakeholders to drive decision-making and action.
• Strong leadership skills with the capacity to motivate and align resources from various teams to achieve shared goals.
• A results-driven mindset with the ability to take ownership of both individual and collective outcomes.
• Excellent relationship-building skills, enabling productive collaboration with Business Services teams, technical experts, and other key stakeholders.
• Exceptional communication skills, characterised by confidence, diplomacy, and credibility in all interactions.
• Resilience and tenacity to navigate challenges and drive initiatives to successful completion.
• Passion for business development, marketing, and the built environment sector, with a keen eye for industry trends and opportunities.
• High professionalism in all communications and stakeholder engagements, reflecting the values and standards of Turner & Townsend.

Role Dependencies and Location

This role reports directly to the Head of Middle East Business Generation and operates without line management responsibilities, though administrative support is available. The position is based in our Riyadh office, with no current requirement for extensive travel.

If you are a proactive and strategic professional with a passion for driving growth and innovation in the built environment sector, we invite you to join our team and contribute to transforming performance for a sustainable future.